A small problem with Vista

AnteCantelope

I'm running Vista 64bit, and I'm sure most of you know about the annoying confirmations that it makes you give whenever you do anything like move or delete files. I was recently patching and modding some games, and every time I moved a file I had two or three confirmation screens. Is there any way to get rid of this? It gets really annoying, and sometimes it forgets to give me the popup asking to give permission, and so assumes that I didn't give permission. Whenever this happens, I need to shutdown before I can move files again.

Thanks.

Cyvros

As far as I know, you have two choices: turn off UAC (not recommended in the slightest) or change the permissions of the folders you're working with. To do the latter, right-click on a folder (I think you can only do one at a time), go into Properties, then Security. Go into Advanced, then to the Owner tab, then Edit and change the owner to you. Click OK until you're back to where you were.

I know that this is horrible and tedious, but it may be the safer solution. Unless you're fine with turning off UAC (Control Panel > User Accounts) just while you're doing the file management. It does involve reboots every time you change the UAC settings, so it's less effort and probably about the same amount of time.

Also, it should only ask you to confirm when you're doing things to files and folders in Program Files and Windows. If confirmation dialogues are coming up when you're doing stuff with your user folders (Documents, Music, etc.) and other non-program/system folders, you'll need to change the permissions.

Hope that helps.

AnteCantelope

Cyvros wrote: »

As far as I know, you have two choices: turn off UAC (not recommended in the slightest) or change the permissions of the folders you're working with. To do the latter, right-click on a folder (I think you can only do one at a time), go into Properties, then Security. Go into Advanced, then to the Owner tab, then Edit and change the owner to you. Click OK until you're back to where you were.

I know that this is horrible and tedious, but it may be the safer solution. Unless you're fine with turning off UAC (Control Panel > User Accounts) just while you're doing the file management. It does involve reboots every time you change the UAC settings, so it's less effort and probably about the same amount of time.

Also, it should only ask you to confirm when you're doing things to files and folders in Program Files and Windows. If confirmation dialogues are coming up when you're doing stuff with your user folders (Documents, Music, etc.) and other non-program/system folders, you'll need to change the permissions.

Hope that helps.

Why is this not recommended? I'm not a complete computer retard, if I'm moving and deleting files I know what I'm doing, and nobody else uses this computer. Is it really that likely that I'll fuck something up?

exoplasm

Just turn off UAC. Your life will be much better.

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Dark Shroud

AnteCantelope wrote: »

Cyvros wrote: »

As far as I know, you have two choices: turn off UAC (not recommended in the slightest) or change the permissions of the folders you're working with. To do the latter, right-click on a folder (I think you can only do one at a time), go into Properties, then Security. Go into Advanced, then to the Owner tab, then Edit and change the owner to you. Click OK until you're back to where you were.

I know that this is horrible and tedious, but it may be the safer solution. Unless you're fine with turning off UAC (Control Panel > User Accounts) just while you're doing the file management. It does involve reboots every time you change the UAC settings, so it's less effort and probably about the same amount of time.

Also, it should only ask you to confirm when you're doing things to files and folders in Program Files and Windows. If confirmation dialogs are coming up when you're doing stuff with your user folders (Documents, Music, etc.) and other non-program/system folders, you'll need to change the permissions.

Hope that helps.

Why is this not recommended? I'm not a complete computer retard, if I'm moving and deleting files I know what I'm doing, and nobody else uses this computer. Is it really that likely that I'll fuck something up?

Over simplified UAC has a lot tied into it for protecting the OS. And it's not about the user being retarded or not. It's designed to give the User complete control over what installs and what doesn't. UAC blockes background installs and has proven to be 100% effective against rootkits.

You can also go in a tweak the settings so it's not so annoying. In the end it's up to you to if you want to disable it all together.

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exoplasm wrote: »

Just turn off UAC. Your life will be much better.

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Blindly disabling security features that do in fact work is never good advice. Your replay sounds like you're one of the asshole Mac users that believe the lying switcher ads. Linux and OSX both have this feature. In fact Linux even asks for your password every time unlike Windows. A standard user hardly ever sees the UAC promt.

Cyvros

What Dark Shroud said. It's a security feature. It's annoying in Vista because it sometimes pops up for the most ridiculous things (I'm pretty sure I want to install these fonts and make these shortcuts), but it's still an important security feature that is only activated (and is only supposed to be activated) if you're working with system or program files.